Educational Technology

March 20, 2014

Who Needs to Know How to Code

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

by Angela Chen, The Wall Street Journal

Like many 10-year-olds, Nick Wald takes private lessons. His once-a-week tutor isn’t helping him with piano scales or Spanish conjugations, but teaching him how to code. Nick, a fifth-grader in New York, went in with no experience and has since learned enough HTML, JavaScript and CSS to build a simple website. He is now working in Apple’s XCode environment to finish an app named “Clockie” that can be used to set alarms and reminders. He plans to offer it in the iOS App Store for free. “I always liked to get apps from the app store, and I always wanted to figure out how they worked and how I could develop it like that,” Nick says.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304709904579411354120634252

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